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Post by swamp on Feb 9, 2011 14:12:37 GMT -5
Why do people think it's OK to waltz into a law office and demand to see a lawyer right now?
Or why do they think it's OK to come in, drop off papers, and expect us to review them in a 1/2 hour and have a letter already to go on it when we have absolutely no idea what the point of the papers is, and then balk when told to make an appointment?
Why do they think it's OK for them to insist that you represent them at some type of administrative hearing that you know nothing about, and they continue to ask you "to just show up and sit with them" even though you have explicitly told them you know nada, zip, zilch, zero about this area of law and have no intention of learning?
I hate people.
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Post by The J on Feb 9, 2011 14:13:39 GMT -5
<<J remembers how happy he is he doesn't have to deal with real clients>>
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2011 14:13:17 GMT -5
I agree. The fox trot would be so much more appropriate.
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Post by Mad Dawg Wiccan on Feb 9, 2011 14:14:40 GMT -5
If most people were smarter, we wouldn't need lawyers.
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Post by swamp on Feb 9, 2011 14:14:47 GMT -5
I agree. The fox trot would be so much more appropriate. I'd like to slam dance them right out into the street.
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Post by Bob Ross on Feb 9, 2011 14:15:53 GMT -5
You should slash your rates (like 90%). Then all of these miscreants will be more than happy to spend more time with you. It's a win-win. Trust.
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Post by DebMD (banned) on Feb 9, 2011 14:16:29 GMT -5
This America and all you Law Types are to protect the right to entitlement
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Post by swamp on Feb 9, 2011 14:16:54 GMT -5
You should slash your rates (like 90%). Then all of these miscreants will be more than happy to spend more time with you. It's a win-win. Trust. No, for those people we have what's called the ID-10-T Tax.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Feb 9, 2011 14:17:35 GMT -5
Because lawyers are Gods and know all, see all, and win all. At least my lawyer friends do.
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Post by swamp on Feb 9, 2011 14:17:57 GMT -5
This America and all you Law Types are to protect the right to entitlement I wouldn't ask an anesthesioligist to deliver my baby, so why would I ask a criminal defense attorney to go to an unemployment hearing?
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Post by jarhead1976 on Feb 9, 2011 14:18:18 GMT -5
lil Love for Swamp! Lawyers get paid before the job is done? Maybe they think your like Radar O' reilly on mash!
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Feb 9, 2011 14:18:29 GMT -5
Why do people think it's OK to waltz into a law office and demand to see a lawyer right now
Oh it is probably the same guy who had his truck broken into and came down to the police station to insist that a cop dust his truck bed for finger prints right this minute.
Then had a fit because the receptionist explained they were out on patrol and wanted to know why there wasn't a police officer available to dust for finger prints when someone comes in to report a crime.
She called an officer to humor him and he must have made some comment over the phone because she sighed and goes "Yes, he wants his truck dusted for finger prints".
She told him it'd be 25 minutes before someone could get back and he said he'd wait!
I am trying not to bust a gut laughing and comment that I think someone has watched too many episodes of CSI.
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Post by DebMD (banned) on Feb 9, 2011 14:19:43 GMT -5
You got those atty's on speed dial??
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2011 14:19:16 GMT -5
Swamp obviously doesn't have the time to deal with riff raff off the streets...
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Post by swamp on Feb 9, 2011 14:20:33 GMT -5
You got those atty's on speed dial?? What attys?
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Post by ktunes on Feb 9, 2011 14:20:51 GMT -5
couldn't be all those ambulance chasing commercials they flood tv with
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Post by swamp on Feb 9, 2011 14:22:38 GMT -5
couldn't be all those ambulance chasing commercials they flood tv with They aren't coming in for that stuff, and besides, I'm not an ambulance chaser. I hate civil litigation.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Feb 9, 2011 14:24:19 GMT -5
I was about to post a similar frustration-of-the-day. Figures Swamp would beat me to it. It never fails that I return to the office from running errands, and office hag attacks me with a string of questions before I have restarted my computer, before I have removed my sunglasses, before I have put my butt in my chair. Invariably, they are questions I cannot answer until I do all these things first, which takes about two minutes. She does it to make me look like a jerk in front of the boss, I realize. I get her answers to her in under five minutes, without further discussion. One day, this will all come to an explosive and horrible end. The building owner is going to install new carpeting in the building. There should be enough of the old stuff to roll around her flabby butt and stuff in the dumpster without anyone suspecting, I think.
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Post by ktunes on Feb 9, 2011 14:24:55 GMT -5
sorry...didn't mean to imply you were...just the perception those commercials give
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Post by Jake 48 on Feb 9, 2011 15:11:44 GMT -5
I think its the entitlement attitude of a lot of people, no manners, no common sense, " I'm the world , revolve around me"
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Feb 9, 2011 15:14:27 GMT -5
Harry's Law does it. Why shouldn't real lawyers?
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Post by privateinvestor on Feb 9, 2011 15:19:39 GMT -5
Instead of steaming into a lawyers office why not check to see if you can file a small claims case?? I just did that and won against a Real Estate Investment Company .....you can download all the small claims forms from a Court Webpage and get Small Claims Advise prior to going to court...
The fee to file a small claims case is only @$30.00 and then you have to pay @$10.00 to serve the defendants that they are being sued by you in small claims court litigation
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Post by KaraBoo on Feb 9, 2011 15:22:29 GMT -5
I love Harry's Law!
That said - she has no clientel, so she's kinda got to take them off the streets until her case load builds up.
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Post by olderburgher on Feb 9, 2011 15:24:37 GMT -5
Funny, a lawyer friend of mine with whom I was once associated, said to me "You know the practice of law would be interesting and fun, if it weren't for the clients." She was having one of those days too.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2011 15:44:30 GMT -5
Harry's Law does it. Why shouldn't real lawyers? Just what I was thinking! That's the way it happens on TV... What, TV isn't realistic?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2011 16:12:16 GMT -5
For the same reason that people accost doctors at parties or when they spot them in the grocery store and want to know what's ailing them and, by the way, "could you stop by the pharmacy as long as you're here and give them a prescription for me?"
For the same reason that people march into a programmer's office and their computer on a desk and demand that it be fixed. Right now.
For the same reason *friends* drop by the hairdresser's house after dinner and ask if she'd mind "just trimming a little off the bottom" and "evening up the bangs".
For the same reason people call me at home in the evening and ask me how to empty the vacuum or what they should use to clean up the bottle of olive oil they spilled on their hardwood floor.
I can honestly say that I never asked BIL to give me a prescription for an ailment or called him at home asking for a diagnosis over the phone.
And never asked DS to fix a hardware problem with my computer. Or a software problem, even though he could do either one.
I never just happened to be in my sister's neighborhood when she was at home and asked her to cut my hair.
And way back in the way back when I had a housekeeper, I didn't ask her to do anything in her free time.
Why? Because people can be stupid and inconsiderate. And cheap.
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Post by reader79 on Feb 9, 2011 16:17:34 GMT -5
I love the Judge Judy commercials - 'Suing Family? Call Judge Judy!'
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Feb 9, 2011 16:25:58 GMT -5
I used to work for a lawyer years ago (who is one of my best friends now). He's also a small business owner which is what I helped him run. When I got sued for my real dad's funeral expenses it never occurred to me to ask him for help! I was telling him about it because I had to fly out of state to handle things and he said "Why don't I look at it for you?". He typed up a letter and asked me to document everything and before I knew it things were handled and the person suing me admitted she lied. The lawyer I had hired in Michigan was worthless! He didn't do anything but collect my checks until my friend got involved. He admitted he thought I was in the wrong until he got my documentation and and proof (which he never asked me for) and didn't charge me any more. I still paid way too much already. I was being milked by the guy. But I got the last laugh. I inherited $83K later from his brother when he died and the step-bitch who sued me got nothing but the funeral bill of my dad. Funny thing - I would have offered to pay half had she not sued me for the bill.
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Post by doxieluvr on Feb 9, 2011 16:27:50 GMT -5
Why do people think it's OK to waltz into a law office and demand to see a lawyer right nowOh it is probably the same guy who had his truck broken into and came down to the police station to insist that a cop dust his truck bed for finger prints right this minute. Then had a fit because the receptionist explained they were out on patrol and wanted to know why there wasn't a police officer available to dust for finger prints when someone comes in to report a crime. She called an officer to humor him and he must have made some comment over the phone because she sighed and goes "Yes, he wants his truck dusted for finger prints". She told him it'd be 25 minutes before someone could get back and he said he'd wait! I am trying not to bust a gut laughing and comment that I think someone has watched too many episodes of CSI. I now have to clean off my computer screen. Thank you for the laugh this afternoon.
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